Heimdall detects falls, wandering and other accidents. In most apartment style homes, one Heimdall is sufficient. Even though it can't see everything directly, it knows when someone enters or leaves and where in the apartment they currently reside. It will monitor the life style and detect deviations from regular patterns. By choosing a good position in a hallway or living room, Heimdall will know something is up soon after it happens.

Once an accident has been detected, care givers will be warneddirectly on their mobile device using text or phone call. Optionally, recordings of the situation can be viewed.

Privacy is 100% guaranteed by using Heimdall. Nothing is sent anywhere unless you tell it to, and all communication is securely encrypted.

You can get pre-paid credit cards that will allow you to back this project. Some examples in the Netherlands:

Some of these are also available in other countries, and alternatives are not hard to find. Make sure there's €1,- more credit on the card than you're willing to back - this seems to be required on Kickstarter. See this link for more information.

If you'd rather go to the store: there are various supermarkets in the Netherlands selling ready-to-use prepaid credit cards. You can find them with the other gift cards and coupons!

Enacer consists of four entrepreneurial experts in AI that met in the RoboCup@Home team from the University of Groningen. We are all skilled in in artificial intelligence and computer science.

In addition to our main scientific educations, we successfully participated in the mini-MBA VentureLab North, a programme that helps young entrepeneurs develop the skills essential to successfully starting and growing a business.

The E-Team, from left to right: Christof, Egbert, Ron and Amir.

Orbbec3D is a US based company producing 3D sensors and computing ardware. One of their products is the Persee, which serves as the foundation of Heimdall, and our software is built on top of it.

What do we need the funding for, you might ask. As with any Kickstarter project, there's lots of overhead we need to take into account. Kickstarter fees and Dutch taxes take up a significant part of the money. Unfortunately, there's not a lot we can do about this. The rewards itself also cost money to produce, of course. The following pie chart shows the distribution of the funds we raise. As you can see, about 20% of the total budget will be available to spend on development.

Our product is building on the Orbbec Persee 3D-camera / computer which is already in production. Our software prototype is functional.

Once the campaign has been successfully funded, we will directly order the hardware for our backers and finish development of the software.

We see the following potential risks:

Our supplier could not able to provide us with some or all of the devices. We will limit the financial implications by making solid agreements on payments with our supplier, and the technical implications by resorting to alternative suppliers.

We could, for whatever (highly unlikely) reason not be able to finish the software. In this situation, we will install the latest version of the protoype software including available documentation on the devices that have been delivered to us, and ship them out to our backers.

In case of whatever (highly unlikely) reason we will be forced to shut down the company, the previous bullet applies as well, and in addition, we will release all our code produced thus far as a GPLv3 licensed open source project on GitHub.

We guarantee you we will do everything we can to avoid any of the three mentioned risks and any other unforeseen risks and we have the fullest confidence that we will be able to ship out Heimdalls in the course of 2017.

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Pledge €25 or more
About $28

Support Heimdall development

Think this is a great idea, want to support us, but don't need a Heimdall yourself? This is the way to go! You'll earn yourself a spot in the manual delivered with Heimdall, and an awesome T-shirt printed with one of our #EnableTheElderly banners - you get to those after the campaign.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge €75 or more
About $85

Influential Deal

Want to be involved in the process without getting the hardware? This deal is for you. We'll also throw in a hoody printed with on of our #EnableTheEldery banners - you get to choose which after the campaign.

Kickstarter is not a store.

Pledge €325 or more
About $370

Super early bird

Get a Heimdall for just €325 instead of target retail price of €499. Be one of the super early birds to support now you still can! Together with the co-developers, you'll be the first to receive a Heimdall. We'll also laser engrave your name in a plaque at our office.

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Pledge €449 or more
About $511

Co-Developers Edition

Would you like to be involved in the development of Heimdall and have a say in further development? Would you like to see what you can build on top of our software? The Co-Developers Edition is what you want!